has been accumulating
- present perfect progressive of accumulate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Another common factor is a heavy debt load, a risk that some investors worry has been accumulating in an exuberant and fast-growing market for company debts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
It is unclear how long the debt has been accumulating but the authority said it was trying to recover the remaining £40,938.08 debt.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2024
Epidemiological and virological evidence for zoonotic transmission has been accumulating steadily, however.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
So when the rain comes, it doesn't just dapple us with light sprinkles, it drops the heavier load of moisture that has been accumulating for a longer time.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2023
Such a bias has come to us all: first, from our ancestor Adam; and, secondly, by that law of heredity which has been accumulating its malign and sinister force through all the ages.
From John the Baptist by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)
